Bragg notes how the Spurs reflect the makeup of the city of San Antonio — ethnically diverse, multinational, blue collar and now, with Hammon hired as an assistant coach of the Spurs, gender-inclusive.

San Antonio has a rich legacy of inclusion celebrated in the HemisFair of 1968, the Institute of Texan Cultures and the annual Texas Folklife Festival.

We love our Spurs because they mirror who we are as a city.

Go Spurs!

Go San Antonio!

John Donahue

Priorities

Re: “It's back to school time — in July; Castle Hills has city's only year-round public magnet school,” Prime Time, Stone Oak Section, July 30:

This article states that Castle Hills Elementary School, which has been on the year-round schedule since 1992, annually surpasses state averages on test scores.

Comparative results for the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness testing last year are still being processed, but results for the 2012-2013 school year show that 81 percent of all students at Castle Hills passed all the subject tests on the STAAR test, versus only 77 percent passing statewide.

Perhaps they could lengthen the day from 9 to 5 or so and increase scores even higher.

Are SeaWorld and Fiesta Texas more important than our children's education?

Craig Bell

Marriage definition

Re: “Abbott produces marriage argument,” Peggy Fikac, Metro, Monday:

What is the difference between Greg and Cecilia Abbott's adoption of their daughter and the adoption of a child by a gay couple?

Abbott argues that his marriage encourages “others who will procreate” into marriage while a loving, stable, responsible relationship between two same-sex partners who have made the commitment to adopt a child does not. Heterosexuals “governed by their passions” frequently have children out of wedlock, “resulting in potentially greater societal costs.”

Perhaps the LGBT community should ask for a tax break based on not being able to bring an unwanted child into this world and the frequent desire to help such unwanted children (and society) by adopting them into single-sex households. Mr. Abbott, marriage is “a public solemnization of the mutual love and commitment between two people.” Leave it at that.